Try to remember the last time you held a CD or DVD in your hand. That in most cases it is quite a few years ago? No wonder. These carriers have already experienced the biggest boom, which is also reflected in the equipment of computers from which physical disk drives have almost disappeared. Of course, this is not the case with Macs, which lost their physical drive a long time ago, and the only way to use disks with them was to connect an external drive via a cable in recent years. Not even that though Apple did not discourage it from selling installation CDs with the macOS operating system until this year - specifically until today.
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He started the slow death of installation CDs with macOS Apple in July 2010, when he introduced OS X Lion as the first planned version of macOS, which was only available through Mac App Store. By the way, it was this macOS in which it first appeared Mission Control, Launchpad, the possibility maxto simulate full-screen applications and so on. Due to demand, Apple sononec decided to "burn" OS X Lion and a year later Mountain Lion to physical discs, but this step only slightly delayed their death. In 2013, it released OS X Mavericks, which it was already adamant about and did not release as a CD. However, it has only now, almost at the end of 2023, decided to stop selling OS X Lion and Mountain Lion discs on its Online Store. This software can now only be downloaded via the Internet.
This is what OS X Lion looked like
It's possible the absence of the internet or miniThe lack of a high-quality, stable connection was the main reason in the past that Apple produced installation discs. However, over time, as seamless internet coverage spread around the world, physical disks were logically no longer needed, which doomed them to death. However, it is interesting that it is Apple in its offer ponekept for so long. After all, we are talking about systems that are ten years old or more, running on complete miniactive Macs.
